US says Iraq invasion was legal

BBC News ^ | 16 Septamber, 2004 | BBC News

[CBull]

It's telling that the U.S. State Department relies on U.N. resolutions and regulations to determine whether or not the actions of the U.S. are legal or not. What happened to the Constitution?

[goright]

bump!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[inquest]

It's telling that the U.S. State Department relies on U.N. resolutions and regulations to determine whether or not the actions of the U.S. are legal or not. What happened to the Constitution?

I'll second that question.

[Nepalis]

Kofi Annan support terrorists !

[no more apples]

Nothin'. And there's nothin' the UN can do about it - that's why they're whinin'.

[CBull]

Your absolutely correct!!! Why pander to him and his corrupt organization?

[plangent]

I'd go back and read your posted Head, which is wrong. It was not the US but the UN's Kofi Annan who said the US action in Iraq was "illegal", whatever that means, because KOFI can't find a credible source (unless it's Dan Rather).

[CBull]

Read the title again carefully!!

[Shqipo]

1930's: FABIAN SOCIETY outlaws war....Hitler conquers Europe.
Today: UN outlaws war... Al Queda conquers..?

[michigander]

How about 'The U.S. tells the irrelevant U.N. to STFU!'

[Sofa King]

This 'illegal war' stuff is indescribably stupid.

Something is illegal when a sovereign state which has authority over it declares it so. War is what happens when two sovereign states fight each other. War cannot be either legal or illegal.

"illegal war" is just a catchphrase fed to stupid people who don't think about anything and will repeat it as often as necessary to get other people to believe it.

[Larry381]

An explicit attempt to effect the US election-any guess which side old Kofi prefers?

[Jim Robinson]

Screw Kofi Annan and the U.N. he rode in on.

[cmsgop]

Classic Title Bump

[CBull]

"Something is illegal when a sovereign state which has authority over it declares it so."

You are correct, thus my reference to the Law that makes our nation sovereign, the Constitution.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Kofi Annan told the BBC the decision to take action in Iraq contravened the UN charter and should have been made by the Security Council, not unilaterally.

Hey, Kofi, didn't anybody tell you that the Iraq war is supported by a coaliton of over 70 countries, you fruit!

[dodger]

Time for 'Regime Change' at the UN. Better yet, shut it down and replace it with a League of Free Nations.

[CBull]

http://www.getusout.org

[Sofa King]

Actually, it was a war that made our nation sovereign, something alot of liberals might not want to admit.

Or maybe not. I can definitely see some modern liberals say that the revolutionary war was illegal, and that we should let Europe take back control of our country.

[CBull]

Sorry,
I put the cart before the horse. You are correct, a war did make us free. The Constitution is supposed to help keep us sovereign, but only if it is not ignored.